May’s Dream: Ashes

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It’s foolish to compare the politics of Britain to the politics in America, kissin’ cousins though we may be. The music is similar, but not the words.

Nevertheless, the same urges of populism that carried Donald Trump into the White House in 2016 is what’s driving Old Blighty out of Europe. No matter how hard she tries to walk the walk, every time Prime Minister Theresa May takes a stroll down the lane she comes back with something tacky on her shoe.

Everything she has done in mismanaging Britain’s exit from the European Union has turned to ashes. The latest public-opinion polls show her racing toward her greatest political disaster ever. An Opinium poll, published in the London Observer, shows the six-week-old Brexit Party defeating the Conservatives in a prospective general election. The Brexit Party is the brainchild of Nigel Farage, who led the referendum by which British voters said it was time to get out while the getting is good.

The elites, like the elites in America, were stunned and have not yet come to terms with reality. They laughed at the upstart Farage. It was as if he didn’t know his place, and a year later he’s the one laughing. There’s no general election on the schedule, but there may be one in the late summer or early autumn if Theresa May is summarily deposed. All the signs and portents are unkind.

If a general election were held today, according to the Opinium poll, the Labor Party would win 28 percent of the vote, the Conservatives would win 21 percent and the Tories, or Conservatives, 20 percent. Mrs. May, whom the angry “leavers” among the Tories have tried to hound from office and have not yet succeeded, can take little solace from having survived so far. The chairman of the polling company says the numbers spell disaster. “If the Conservative leadership contenders are not careful,” he says, “there will be no party left for them to lead.”

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(2) Brexit Party Promise: Farage to revolutioni UK politics by handing loyal members power

(3) EU facing Washington fury: Fresh attack on Brussels defence plans

(4) What are the big questions Nigel Farage faces if he wins the Euros?

(5) Nigel Farage and Brexit Party MEPs won’t get coveted Parliamentary passes if they win Euro elections under Lords plans to strip them of rights